| Rank
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Proposal
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Category
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Support
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Ticket
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Status
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| 1 |
Migrate dead external links to archives |
Bots and gadgets |
111 |
T120433
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 Done Bot is running on English Wikipedia, volunteer is working on expanding to other languages.
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| 2 |
Improved diff comparisons |
Editing |
104 |
T128697
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Done Original issue fixed, see ticket T128697.
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| 3 |
Central Global Repository for Templates, Lua modules, and Gadgets |
Templates |
87 |
T121470
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| 4 |
Cross-wiki watchlist |
Watchlists |
84 |
T5525
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 Declined by WMF's Community Tech team, but other WMF or WMDE staff members or teams, or volunteer developers, can work on it. See discussion.
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| 5 |
Numerical sorting |
Categories |
84 |
T8948
|
Done on English Wikipedia, now starting discussions on other languages and projects
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| 6 |
Allow categories in Commons in all languages |
Commons |
78 |
T120451
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In development by Wikidata and Multimedia team, see latest demo on Commons:Structured data
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| 7 |
Pageview Stats tool |
Miscellaneous |
70 |
T120497
|
Done - check out Pageviews Analysis!
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| 8 |
Global (cross-wiki) user talk page |
Talk pages |
66 |
T88416
|
Declined, see project page
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| 9 |
Improve the plagiarism detection bot |
Bots and gadgets |
63 |
T120435
|
Done on English Wikipedia - check out CopyPatrol!
Now working on extending to other languages
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| 10 |
Add a user watchlist |
Watchlists |
62 |
T2470
|
Declined, see project page
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| 11 |
3D models on Wikimedia Commons |
Commons |
56 |
T3790
|
Done - at Mw:Extension:3D
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| 12 |
Watchlist timed expiry |
Watchlists |
55 |
T100508
|
Done Community Tech/Watchlist Expiry
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| 13 |
Dark archive |
Commons |
52 |
T120454
|
Needs developer discussion
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| 14 |
Enhanced per-user, per-article protection / blocking |
Moderation and admin tools |
52 |
T2674
|
Done See Community health initiative/Partial blocks
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| 15 |
Improve date range searches on Special:Contributions |
Moderation and admin tools |
49 |
T120733
|
Done
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| 16 |
Make it easy to build infoboxes that display information from wikidata |
Wikidata |
49 |
T112987
|
|
| 17 |
Improve SVG rendering |
Multimedia |
46 |
T120746
|
Done by upgrading the SVG library in July 2016 which fixed five bugs.
|
| 18 |
Section watchlists |
Watchlists |
45 |
T2738
|
|
| 19 |
Technical user right to edit summaries |
Miscellaneous |
43 |
T15937
|
Declined, see ticket
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| 20 |
Color-coded WikiText editing |
Editing |
42 |
T101246
|
Mostly Done, see mw:Extension:CodeMirror
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| 21 |
Reduce edit conflicts by treating different parts of the page as separate |
Editing |
41 |
T120462
|
Closed, see ticket
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| 22 |
Modify "Thank you" so we can thank anonymous editors |
Notifications |
41 |
T63022
|
Task closed, mw:Trust and Safety Product/Temporary Accounts in progress
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| 23 |
Visual Editor adapted for Wikisource |
Wikisource |
41 |
T48580
|
In development - by Coren et al
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| 24 |
Make it easier to cite different pages from a book as one reference |
Editing |
40 |
T100645
|
In development - by Felipe et al
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| 25 |
Tool to use Google OCRs in Indic language Wikisource |
Wikisource |
39 |
T120788
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Done working now on Bengali and 4 other langs -- See T140037 for more.
|
| 26 |
Copyvio tools for Commons |
Commons |
38 |
T120453
|
Community Tech investigating - see T145165
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| 27 |
Provide a means of searching for deleted pages |
Search |
37 |
T109561
|
User/Admin feedback needed on development thus far - please see Phab:T109561 for instructions to test
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| 28 |
Save edits before publishing |
Editing |
35 |
T120479
|
Done Community Tech/Auto-save edits, Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Edit-recovery feature
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| 29 |
Improve MediaWiki's blocking tools |
Moderation and admin tools |
33 |
T120734
|
Task closed. Community health initiative/Blocking tools and improvements, Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Multiblocks
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| 30 |
Watchlist priority options |
Watchlists |
33 |
T3492
|
Blocked - related work ongoing in Phab:T126641
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| 31 |
Automatically replace links to discussion when it is archived |
Talk pages |
30 |
T120766
|
|
| 32 |
Reminders in notifications |
Notifications |
30 |
T88781
|
Open for development
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| 33 |
Search edit summaries |
Search |
30 |
T60698
|
Epic task - estimated to be multiple quarters worth of work
|
| 34 |
Support KML files in Commons |
Commons |
27 |
T28059
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Possibly open for development
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| 35 |
Better support for djvu files |
Wikisource |
25 |
T120784
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Help needed - djvu expert to help split the task into subtasks, and add more detail to each.
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| 36 |
Enabling EPUB conversion on Wikipedia |
Miscellaneous |
24 |
T97672
|
In development - by Ljonka
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| 37 |
Reading List |
Reading |
24 |
T120756
|
|
| 38 |
Create a tool to auto-populate categories through Wikidata/other wiki comparison |
Categories |
23 |
T120439
|
In development - by Valhallasw et al
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| 39 |
Inserting templates (tables) in PDF and Books |
Templates |
23 |
T73808 |
Investigation - WMDE's TCB team
|
| 40 |
Turn RefToolbar into a MediaWiki extension (or add it into the WikiEditor extension) |
Editing |
23 |
T120482
|
|
| 41 |
Improve Special:Log |
Special pages |
22 |
T120764
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- T20954 - Done by Cenarium et al
- T16711 - in development by Jackmcbarn and Cenarium et al
- T14984 - owner needed
- T22166 - owner needed (difficult - an intensive database request)
|
| 42 |
Special:NewPagesFeed in every language |
Moderation and admin tools |
21 |
T50552
|
|
| 43 |
Generate automatic summary when adding section |
Editing |
19 |
T22307
|
In development - by Matma Rex et al
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| 44 |
Implement an Internet Archive-like digitalization service |
Wikisource |
19 |
T120785
|
|
| 45 |
Echo notifications: mark to read |
Notifications |
18 |
T73564
|
Done - by Collaboration team
|
| 46 |
Improve Special:LinkSearch |
Search |
18 |
T120761
|
Split in 2:
|
| 47 |
Page contributors |
Editing |
18 |
T120478
|
In development - in T129123 by Devirk et al
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| 48 |
Whole Infobox from Wikidata |
Wikidata |
17 |
T112987
|
Research - see also #16
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| 49 |
SUL account merging |
Miscellaneous |
16 |
T120499
|
Declined - see Phab:T49918#1979870
|
| 50 |
Wikidata support for Wiktionary |
Wikidata |
16 |
T986
|
Epic
|
| 51 |
Enable Apertium on cy, for Content Translation |
Editing |
15 |
T102101
|
Done
|
| 52 |
Normalize Special: pages for batch delete/undelete and batch moves |
Special pages |
15 |
T120765
|
|
| 53 |
Paragraph blaming tool |
Moderation and admin tools |
15 |
T2639
|
Community Tech/Who Wrote That tool
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| 54 |
Category suggestions based on filename, description and location |
Categories |
14 |
T120437
|
Open for development
|
| 55 |
Modify Media Viewer to include Wikidata information |
Wikidata |
14 |
T120780
|
Epic, related to Wikidata and structured data
|
| 56 |
Automatic numbering of pictures |
Multimedia |
13 |
T7600
|
Experienced developer needed
|
| 57 |
Automatic search for similar items in Wikidata |
Wikidata |
13 |
T120779
|
(to check - is there already a tool that does this?)
|
| 58 |
Article assessor gadget/extension |
Bots and gadgets |
12 |
T116092
|
Done Phab:T120219 and Mw:Extension:PageAssessments
|
| 59 |
List of contributors |
Moderation and admin tools |
12 |
T120738
|
In development - by Devirk et al, in T129123
|
| 60 |
Better history pages |
Moderation and admin tools |
11 |
T30131
|
Epic
|
| 61 |
Create a bot to show changes in articles for each WikiProject |
Miscellaneous |
11 |
T117122
|
Could potentially be resolved via improvements to Special:RecentChangesLinked (T117122).
A more complex alternative is T97210 (#97 below).
|
| 62 |
Error categorization by #ifexist bug |
Miscellaneous |
11 |
T14019
|
|
| 63 |
Make quality/reliability of an article more clear to the reader |
Reading |
11 |
T120754
|
(see also #69)
|
| 64 |
Make SecurePoll feature-rich |
Miscellaneous |
10 |
T118073
|
|
| 65 |
Tools for dealing with citations of withdrawn academic journal articles |
Miscellaneous |
10 |
T120502
|
|
| 66 |
Use of pictures in wikipedia |
Multimedia |
10 |
T120748
|
Open for development
|
| 67 |
Image searches based on image recognition |
Search |
9 |
T120759
|
|
| 68 |
OTRS permissions checker |
Moderation and admin tools |
9 |
T88620
|
|
| 69 |
Add checklist/filter functionality to articles/categories |
Categories |
8 |
T120436
|
(see also #63)
|
| 70 |
Allow copy of pages |
Wikisource |
8 |
T120783
|
|
| 71 |
Allow Redirects to be linked to Wikidata items |
Wikidata |
8 |
T120778
|
Done
|
| 72 |
Dropdown diffs of last edits |
Watchlists |
8 |
T120775
|
The existing userscript needs performance/security review, and then either gadgetization, or extension/core merge
|
| 73 |
Multilingual search |
Search |
8 |
T3837
|
Editor Feedback Wanted - Related work ongoing in mw:Cross-wiki Search Result Improvements
|
| 74 |
Nested tag support |
Editing |
8 |
T120477
|
|
| 75 |
Default user interface mode |
Editing |
7 |
T120458
|
|
| 76 |
Powerful, handy TemplateTiger |
Templates |
7 |
T120767
|
|
| 77 |
Simple math in tables |
Editing |
7 |
T120480
|
|
| 78 |
Subpages: suppress links to ancestor pages |
Reading |
7 |
T41395
|
|
| 79 |
Access talk pages in the mobile interface from main article |
Talk pages |
6 |
T54165
|
|
| 80 |
Cite : Share : Export |
Miscellaneous |
6 |
T120487
|
|
| 81 |
Collaborative way to generate SVG/PNG graphs using Lua modules |
Miscellaneous |
6 |
T120489
|
|
| 82 |
Machine learning to identify sockpuppets |
Moderation and admin tools |
6 |
T107600
|
|
| 83 |
Machine-learning tool for toxic interactions |
Bots and gadgets |
6 |
T120431
|
|
| 84 |
Shared variables for AbuseFilter |
Moderation and admin tools |
6 |
T120740
|
|
| 85 |
UI to display category members by timestamp |
Categories |
6 |
T120448
|
|
| 86 |
Merge the content translation and the visual editor to one tool |
Editing |
5 |
T121475
|
|
| 87 |
Mobile-friendly framework for multi-column portal and project pages |
Reading |
5 |
T120755
|
|
| 88 |
Allow tabular datasets on Commons (or some similar central repository) |
Commons |
4 |
T120452
|
Core support is Done by Interactive team, but needs a better user interface.
|
| 89 |
Installing Wiki Edu's Course Dashboards on Wikiversity |
Wikiversity |
4 |
T111630
|
|
| 90 |
Opt out of Thanks feature |
Notifications |
4 |
T120753
|
|
| 91 |
Tools for fly-by-night-editors to analyze silent reverts |
Watchlists |
4 |
T120776
|
|
| 92 |
Work queues |
Moderation and admin tools |
4 |
T120742
|
|
| 93 |
Visibility for quality issues |
Wikidata |
3 |
T120781
|
|
| 94 |
Ability to enable code editor separately from "enhanced editing toolbar" |
Miscellaneous |
2 |
T47850
|
|
| 95 |
Editor Stats API/GUI |
Miscellaneous |
2 |
T120491
|
|
| 96 |
Preliminary Interwiki linking and Second language preferences |
Miscellaneous |
2 |
T120498
|
|
| 97 |
WikiProject Wizard |
Miscellaneous |
2 |
T97210
|
|
| 98 |
Enhance image uploading process |
Multimedia |
1 |
T120745
|
|
| 99 |
Support for version branching for pages |
Miscellaneous |
1 |
T113004
|
|
| 100 |
Contains this text but not in this category or its (n-level) descendants |
Categories |
0 |
T120438
|
|
| 101 |
Education Program interface changes |
Miscellaneous |
0 |
T120492
|
Declined - uninstalled
|
| 102 |
Major overhaul to Special reports |
Miscellaneous |
0 |
T120495
|
|
| 103 |
Making categories more friendly: enable HotCat by all, but with pending revisions |
Categories |
0 |
T120444
|
|
| 104 |
RFC tools |
Moderation and admin tools |
0 |
T31923
|
|
| 105 |
Suggested multimedia for article |
Multimedia |
0 |
T120747
|
|
| 106 |
Suggesting AbuseFilter by machine learning |
Moderation and admin tools |
0 |
T120741
|
|
| 107 |
Tool to upload from Panjab Digital Library |
Wikisource |
0 |
T120787
|
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